Bodega Bay Fishing Report
Northern California Weekly Fishing Report – Bodega Bay, San Francisco Bay, Tomales Bay & Fort Bragg
Click any tile below for this week’s Bodega Bay fishing report. Additionally, you can find real-time updates from San Francisco Bay, Tomales Bay, and Fort Bragg. We post a fresh report every week we can get on the water—weather permitting—so you always know what’s biting, where, and why. Furthermore, our charter skippers deliver completely honest fishing reports. This includes big-number days, slow grinds, and everything in between. All helping you set realistic expectations before you book a trip.
If you want a quick snapshot of peak seasons for salmon, rockfish, lingcod, halibut, tuna, and crab, then jump over to our What We Catch page for month-by-month highlights.
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Bodega Bay Fishing Report Week of 4-20-25
Fishing this week was decent with good rockfish coming in but a slower bite on the lings. Lots of wind keeping trips limited as normal for april with only 2 trips last week. As I type this Capt. Josh is reporting a pretty good bite in the bay today so expect things to improve this
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Bodega Bay Fishing Report Week of 4-06-25
First Report of the season with some good offshore lingcod action and striper action in the bay. Bodega Bay Offshore Rockfish 4-5-25 On Saturday we headed offshore into a slight wind chop and quickly caught about 60 sand dabs and one giant petrale sole. We then shifted to the shallower grounds in our offshore area
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Northern California Fishing Update 3-14-25
As fishing season approaches with an April 1st start date for us, we are very busy getting both boats ready to start fishing out of SF bay and Bodega Bay. There are a few big and small changes to the new regulations for 2025, but Salmon remains as the big question, and at best it
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Bodega Bay Fishing Report Week of 12-03-24
Insane offshore Yellowtail bite, with some hit or miss albacore in the mix. Wide open inshore bite. Decent but steady crabbing. The fishing can’t get more epic. Bodega Bay Tuna Report 11-26-24 We headed west and found that the bait and life from the past few weeks of albacore action had scattered, we trolled further
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Bodega Bay Fishing Report Week of 11-17-24
Offshore tuna bite remains wide open and the inshore rockfish bite was the exact opposite. Crab are still a bit hit or miss. Bodega Bay Crab and Rock Cod Report 11-16-24 The saying you cant have good days without bad days really applied to the rockfish today, and today wasn’t a good day. Most of
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Bodega Bay Fishing Report Week of 11-10-24
Lots of hot albacore action continues into mid November and the crabbing remains a bit hit or miss. I was out of town for the past few weeks elk hunting so I missed a lot of reports, but most of them were not too exciting, slower tuna fishing for Capt. Josh and Capt. Billy. Most
Past Fishing Report Archive
- December 2025 (1)
- November 2025 (3)
- October 2025 (1)
- August 2025 (2)
- July 2025 (5)
- June 2025 (3)
- May 2025 (1)
- April 2025 (4)
- March 2025 (1)
- December 2024 (1)
- November 2024 (2)
- October 2024 (1)
- September 2024 (2)
- August 2024 (3)
- July 2024 (4)
- June 2024 (4)
- May 2024 (2)
- April 2024 (1)
- March 2024 (1)
- February 2024 (1)
- November 2023 (1)
- October 2023 (3)
- September 2023 (1)
- August 2023 (3)
- July 2023 (3)
- June 2023 (4)
- May 2023 (1)
Bodega Bay Fishing Report Information:
Captain Ryan primarily writes these fishing reports when he gets a chance on Sunday or Monday evenings. Sometimes life gets in the way and it gets delayed. But if we leave the dock, whether the fishing’s good or bad, it will end up on this report eventually. Our Fishing reports will include Tomales Bay, Bodega Bay, Fort Bragg, San Francisco Bay and anywhere else we fish. You can expect fishing reports from Bodega Bay and Tomales Bay regularly. These reports are available for most of the summer, fall, and early winter. We continue until we dry dock the boat around Christmas. Currently the only other honest and first hand experience fishing report is from Willy with the Lawsons Landing Report down at Dillion’s Beach. We will also include fishing reports for our personal trips (when we are lucky enough to get them in) and tips and info from friends or other boats when we can get them. We are working on expanding this section of the website and archiving fishing reports out of Bodega Bay for years to come, for clients to get a better understanding of what seasons are best for what species. Overall this report is labeled as the Bodega Bay Fishing Report, but covers a wide variety of reports and information.